Jon Wile is VP/Design at American City Business Journals in Charlotte, North Carolina. Jon oversees design for 40 business journals across editorial, advertising, events, marketing, product, and UX. He created and manages the News Design Desk and Business Design Desk, a pair of centralized design teams that have more than 50 designers across the U.S. Previously at ACBJ, Jon served as VP/Content as well as Creative Director, a role in which he redesigned all 40 papers and web sites.

Alex K. Fong is the creative director and a masthead editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he oversees a multidisciplinary team of designers, graphic artists, graphics reporters and developers. His nearly two decades of experience in the news industry has included leadership roles in newsrooms in the United States and overseas. In 2012, he collaborated on the redesign of some 80 daily print newspapers for Digital First Media, including the Los Angeles Daily News and the El Paso Times.

Rebecca Pazos is the Asia Graphics Editor at Reuters, mum of two vibrant boys and adore sharing my love for graphics and visual storytelling. Australian based in Singapore!

Beto Alvarez has spent nearly 30 years in design, working across illustration, data visualization, and collaborative projects. At the Los Angeles Times, Beto is the Deputy Director of Newsroom Innovation and Planning, helping align design, editorial, and technology to shape digital platforms and support both newsroom efficiency and great storytelling.

Zachary Balcoff is a news designer at The Washington Post working across print, digital and social media platforms. Zachary graduated with a bachelor’s in journalism from Michigan State University in 2025 and has minors in graphic design, animation & comics storytelling in media, and theatre. Zachary has been involved in journalism since seventh grade and has won more than 40 journalistic awards on the state and national level, including for SND’s 46th Creative Competition. He loves embracing creativity across a multitude of mediums.

Sara Chodosh is a graphics editor in the Opinion section at the New York Times, where she works with guest essayists to craft visually driven arguments (whether she agrees with them or not). She won an SND Bronze award last year for the story she wrote and produced on pregnancy-associated homicides, and has master’s degrees in science journalism from New York University and in visual storytelling from the University of Girona. Before joining the Times, she was an editor at Popular Science, where she ran the infographics section of the magazine. She has retained a deep and abiding love for print.

Marco Hernandez has worked in graphics for over 20 years, including Reuters, Singapore; La Nación, Costa Rica; and The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. Marco joined The New York Times in 2021. Marco has received more than 160 awards from the Society for News Design, including “World’s Best Designer” in 2021, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for his work with Reuters covering the protests in Hong Kong. Marco was also part of the team that won the 2023 and 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the war in Ukraine and Gaza, respectively. In 2023, Ball State University honored him with the Majeri Award for Innovation and Leadership in Journalism.

Kaliz Lee is a Hong Kong-based designer with expertise in newsroom infographics and commercial design, spanning both print and digital media. During her decade in the newsroom, she has consistently explored diverse approaches to visual storytelling. Her team’s visual reporting work has received numerous awards, including SND Best in Show, WAN-IFRA Gold, Malofiej, Sigma delta chi journalism award, Gerald Loeb Award and more. She currently serves as an assistant graphics editor at the South China Morning Post.

Peiying Loh is the Head and Co-founder of Kontinentalist, an award-winning data-driven editorial studio that aims to bring Asia to the forefront of global conversations. Since its founding in 2017, Kontinentalist has told innovative and rigorous data stories on topics ranging from how the rubber industry in Singapore and Malaysia was shaped by colonialism, to communicating climate change in Southeast Asia. With Kontinentalist, she seeks to empower voices through cause-driven stories as well as change people’s perception about Asia and its cultures. Peiying recently completed an MSc in Data, Inequality and Society at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute with support from the Chevening Foundation.

Alberto Lucas López is a Senior Artist, New Narratives at National Geographic. Journalist, originally from Spain, his individual work has been recognized by more than 200 international awards from SND, Webby, SPD, WAN-IFRA, IIBA, DJA Global Editors Network, and CaGIS, among other organizations. It is worth highlighting he has been awarded with the Best of Show Malofiej—that distinguishes the best infographic in the world published of the year—, two Human Rights Award Malofiej, the Best Map of the World Miguel Urabayen Award, and the Impressive Individual Award from Information Is Beautiful Awards. Alberto he has been part of the National Geographic family since 2016. In recent years Alberto has been spending his free time studying for a Ph.D. in Arts and Education (ongoing)

Tyler Remmel is the senior news designer at The Washington Post where he works across multiple platforms as a designer, developer and art director. Tyler have been a part of some of the newsroom’s biggest events and projects since arriving six years ago, including but not limited to: the Nationals’ World Series run in 2019; elections in 2020, 2022 and 2024; our Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of both the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and on America’s obsession with AR-15-style rifles; an award-winning investigation tracing the fentanyl crisis from Mexico to the U.S.; and a series of profiles that exposed the forces at play in the Sahel region of Africa. Tyler graduated from Ashland University in Ohio with degrees in journalism and sports communication.

TK Sajeev Kumar is an editorial leader and visual journalism professional with over three decades of experience in print and online media. Throughout my career, I have championed excellence in newspaper and magazine design by combining innovation, strategy, and thought leadership. As the Founder and Editorial Director of NewspaperDesign.org , the world’s leading platform for news design innovation, TK brings together expertise in print, digital, and visual storytelling with the mission to inspire, educate, and raise global standards in design.